Famous English Quotations
List of famous English quotations from politicians, authors, actors, scientists and philosophers.
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| Quotation | Author |
|---|---|
| S | |
| "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." | Antoine de St Exupery |
| "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." | Antoine de St Exupery |
| "Hell is other people." | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| "It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create." | John Saxe |
| "For success, attitude is equally as important as ability." | Sir Walter Scott |
| "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." | Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "Life is a play. It's not its length but its performance that counts." | Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "Action is eloquence." | William Shakespeare |
| "All that glitters is not gold." | William Shakespeare |
| "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." | William Shakespeare |
| "Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners." | William Shakespeare |
| "Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind." | William Shakespeare |
| "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." | George Bernard Shaw |
| "Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language." | George Bernard Shaw |
| "The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty." | George Bernard Shaw |
| "Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children!" | George Bernard Shaw |
| "Martyrdom ... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability." | George Bernard Shaw |
| "We don't stop playing because we grow; we grow old because we stop playing." | George Bernard Shaw |
| "Reasonable men adapt to the world. Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves. That's why all progress depends on unreasonable men." | George Bernard Shaw |
| "Can a man who is warm understand one who is freezing?" | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you plant!" | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| "Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary." | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| "Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." | Jonathan Swift |
| "May you live every day of your life." | Jonathan Swift |
| T | |
| "I am more afraid of an army of a hundred sheep led by a lion, than by an army of a hundred lions led by a sheep." | Talleyrand |
| "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| "A good laugh is sunshine in a house." | William Thackery |
| "If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman." | Margaret Thatcher |
| "It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake." | Margaret Thatcher |
| "I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end." | Margaret Thatcher |
| "It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs." | Margaret Thatcher |
| "Love is real only when a person can sacrifice himself for another." | Leo Tolstoy |
| "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." | Mark Twain |
| "Be careful of reading health books. You may die of a misprint." | Mark Twain |
| "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." | Mark Twain |
| "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." | Mark Twain |
| "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. " | Mark Twain |
| "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." | Mark Twain |
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